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Solo Travel and Dining Alone Whether you are a thousand miles away from home, or wanting to try out a new restaurant close to home, you should not be hesitant if you are dining solo. For some the thought of eating alone conjures up the stereotypical image of the lonely person at the corner table quickly eating an early dinner before pitying eyes fill the dining room. Today, with a whole segment of the population…

Are you dying to try solo travel? Midlife is a great time to realize your dream of solo travel. I think that when women hear the term “solo travel” they think of travel to far away places. While that can be the ultimate goal, it’s not necessarily the best way to start out for most women. If that is what you want to do (after all my first “solo&#8221…

Are you going on a group tour solo and decided to room with another solo traveler? Faced with wanting to save some money while traveling I had gone against my better judgment and signed up to double up on a room for my first trip to Paris. I had just one other solo traveler to choose from. She was in her 80’s and Paris was the one place she had never been to. First…

We’ve all been there. You spend weeks planning a much needed vacation to your dream destination and in the blink of an eye, it’s over. The post vacation blues set in. Post travel depression is a very real thing compounded if you are returning to a mediocre job or any other less than perfect things going on in your life. While we travel, we are often our best versions of ourselves…

How many times has fear held you back from doing something you really want to do? Are you over 40 and realize that you want to take a vacation in a far off land (or maybe just the next state) and you don’t know how to go about it? Fear can paralyze us into not living our dream lives. Of course not everyone can act on every little whim we have, like quitting…

I am a 50-something Wife to a fabulous non-traveling Husband and Mom to an independent college age Daughter from small town Wisconsin.
At the age of 48 I took my dream trip to Paris on a tour, but as a solo traveler. It took being thousands of miles from home for me to discover myself.
Although Paris is my #1 destination, I love to explore my home state of Wisconsin and anywhere else my travels take me.
My mission is to inspire women to conquer their fears and follow their dreams through travel.
I also love to write about my book addiction and all the challenges and joys of midlife.